Feds want to know: Did Mitt check tunnel?

[itsrobert]

Federal officials are probing scathing allegations that the Romney administration falsely claimed to conduct safety inspections in the Big Dig tunnel that collapsed and killed a woman in July.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is zeroing in on state financial documents from 2005 - cited in a new report by state Inspector General Gregory Sullivan - indicating that Gov. Mitt Romney was reviewing the safety of the Big Dig, when in fact the administration was only checking leaks in the Interstate 93 tunnel.

“Despite repeated assurances to bondholders, (MassHighway and Romney’s Executive Office of Transportation) . . . did not inspect the I-90 connector tunnel section where the July 10, 2006, collapse occurred,” Sullivan’s report states. “It is clear that casual disregard for the truth was grossly inappropriate.”


more at link
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=162187

[WindRavenX]

1. haahahhah Romney you suck

:rofl:

[GCP]

4. Yeah, too bad some guy had to see his wife of 2 hours crushed

next to him.

This makes the overreaction we all saw with General Contractor Mitt all but donning a hard hat and gloves and torquing the bolts himself after the collapse.

[eppur_se_muova]

16. The widower could file a civil suit, if the investigation seems to stall..

as investigations of Repugs tend to do.

[GCP]

17. Yeah

Lawsuits bring people back from the dead.

[Mz Pip]

2. Mittens is in trouble

Cross another 08 hopeful off the list of GOP wannabes. Bummer for him.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[wicket]

3. Poor Willard Romney

n/t

[MrScorpio]

5. Now you see why the name, Romney is persona non grata in Michigan

Like father, like son

[NOLADEM]

6. He is fucked

He didn't inspect the tunnels because it was convenient for his Bechtel/Neo-Con masters that he didn't.

Republicans choose personal gain over public safety every time.

Iraq war, terror laws, Foleygate, tunnel inspections and on and on and on.

[SpiralHawk]

7. A lying republicon? How typical...

eom

[Vinca]

8. Buh by, Mitt, buh by. nt

[Ian David]

9. I see a Presidential Medal of Freedom in Der Mittenfuhrer's future!

Bush awards Michael Brown the Presidential Medal of Freedom (fake)


Also fake.

[0007]

10. Hard to believe that smart people put this mormom crook into power

[many a good man]

11. Another example of Republican corporate cronyism

Dems deliver good govt, Repubs reward cronies at the expense of the public good.

[Eurobabe]

12. Another whacko CON bites the dust for '08

Keep it coming baby!

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. If he spent anytime in Mass. he might have done some good, but

He spends all his time running around the country bashing the state he was elected to govern.

[yy4me]

15. My thoughts exactly. He seems quite at home running

around the world sticking his nose into what is going on everywhere else. Governor of Massachusetts?
We hardly recognize him. Even when he is here, nothing of consequence seems to be done. Be Gone with you, Mitt!

[bluerum]

14. Why does our protector of the people - The Boston Globe - not

have any coverage of this (or did I miss it)? What are the links to Kerry Healey and her coat-tails run for governor?